Frank Coztansa wrote:
Douchebag wrote:
To add to my previous post, there is nothing better than a 15+ inning NL game. When teams start running out of guys on the bench, and the pen, strategy and gut calls take over the game. A manager has to make the tough call of burning his last pinch hitter or sending up the relief pitcher to the plate. It makes for very interesting baseball.
In the AL you just keep trotting out the same guys and hope one of them hits a bomb to end it. Pitchers will continue pitching until they are spent and then you just move on to the next arm in the pen.
Yeah, because thats exactly what happened in last year's All Star game.
Or yesterday in Seattle.
Are you actually citing the all-star game for your argument? I hope the
is representing sarcasm.
As for the Seattle game, I didn't see highlights of it, but I just checked out the box score. Seattle made one move in the field and that was lifting the catcher for a pinch runner late in the game (that's a no brainer). Then they put in the backup catcher the following inning. Oakland made 2 substitutions in the field and only used 5 pitchers the entire game. Gio Gonzalez threw 5 innings in relief. In the NL he would've had to come to the plate 1 or 2 times and would've been taken out for a pinch hitter. Oakland's final pitcher was a starter because he got shelled his last time out and was obviously okay on short rest and the A's were short-handed because one of their pitchers has the flu. They still had Michael Wuertz available and I really don't know why he wasn't used in that situation. I really don't see the point you were trying to make by citing this game.
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